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Ethiopian parliament has voted to remove the Tigray People’s Liberation Front from the country's terror blacklist. This comes four months after the group signed a peace deal to end a brutal war against the government. The truce signed in November in South Africa's capital, ended a two-year conflict that led to thousands of deaths and warnings of a famine. Delisting Tigray Front as a terrorist organization was among the highlights of the […]

Qatar and Saudi Arabia authorities have announced that the holy month of Ramadan will start on Thursday. Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court declared that Wednesday would be the last day of the Islamic calendar month of Shaban, which precedes Ramadan. Ramadan is determined by the Islamic lunar calendar, which begins at the first sight of the moon. Muslims believe that Ramadan is the month in which the first verses of the Quran were revealed […]

Senegal's president Macky Sall has refuted claims that it would be unconstitutional for him to seek a third mandate. The constitution in Senegal states that no-one can serve more than two consecutive terms which the opposition says prevents Sall from running in next year's election. Critics of the President, accuse his government of using the courts to sideline the opposition politician, Ousmane Sonko. Sonko is currently facing two court cases […]

Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has said protests will take place every Monday until President William Ruto addresses the economic plaguing the country. Odinga is pushing for electoral justice which is a mixture of his disputed claim that he won the last election and a push to block the reconstitution of the team that runs the country’s election. Business activities have been disrupted in the capital and in Kisumu, his […]

China has condemned the killing of Chinese nationals by militants in Central African Republic, CAR. According to a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, Chinese President, Xi Jinping, called for severe punishment of the perpetrators. The Chinese embassy in Bangui has urged citizens to avoid travelling outside the capital following the killings, raising the alert levels to very high. The mayor of the central Bembari town revealed that they counted […]

The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy has passed 300 as the body count continues to rise. Authorities say at least 53 people have died in Mozambique’s Zambezia province, more than doubling their previous count. The storm tore through Southern Africa over the weekend for a second time after first making landfall in late February. Malawi has reported 225 dead so far, with hundreds more injured and some still missing. […]

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has announced the allocation of close to $3.4m for reconstruction in the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy. Nyusi, who visited the areas severely affected by the cyclone in the country’s central province of Zambezia, said the amount would be spent on rebuilding schools and destroyed infrastructure. The president extended the terms of a commission mandated to work on national recovery after extreme weather conditions. The cyclone made […]

A court in the Pakistan has halted of a two-day operation to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan until Thursday. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, PTI had petitioned the Islamabad High Court, seeking the cancellation of the non-bail able arrest warrant. The court dismissed the plea, asking Khan to submit an undertaking to a lower court that he would appear before it on March 18. Security forces first attempted to take the leader […]